Father Bertrand Buby, S.M., Professor at the International Marian Research Institute sent the following note:

I will be giving a retreat to the Marianist brothers, sisters, and
priests next week. ... Please, keep this retreat in your prayers. It is in San Antonio at the
Oblate Retreat Center [pictured at right]. The theme is the faith of Mary and our Marianist charism.

Francesca Franchina, MS. Ed., a long-time member of the Marianist Family, will be doing a series of Marian broadcasts through
the local stations for Radio Maria WHJM
(FM 88.7) in Anna, Ohio and WULM (AM 1600) in Springfield, Ohio. Called "Francesca and Friends: Why Mary?," the program
airs every Wednesday from 11:30
AM-12:30 PM EST focusing on what is going on in the world about Mary, how to speak with others about Mary, and Mary in Scripture.

On Wednesday, July 29, Francesca Franchina talks with Immaculee Ilibagiza about
the genocide in
Rwanda,
her experience during the genocide, how the Blessed Mother came before the great
travail, what she requested then and what she requests now! CALL IN TOLL FREE. PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM (during the live show); 1-866-333-6279.

The broadcast may also be heard on-line at radiomaria.us [Click
on the BVMary photo ... Scroll down to RADIO MARIA USA (English) ... Click on
the windows icon or whichever media program you have on your PC.]. The
web site also provides access to some previous broadcasts. We'll keep you
informed about future programs. An encore of each show is broadcast Monday
night from 8:30-9:30 pm EST one week after the original.

Fran's series, Through the Tummy to the Heart, (T5H) airs every Tuesday except the first Tuesday
from 5:00-5:45 PM on RADIO MARIA WHJM and also online. The series encores Saturdays from 3:00-3:45 pm. Tune in 88.7 FM (WHJM)
in the northern Archdiocese of Cincinnati and on line at
www.radiomaria.us from
anywhere in the world. Send email to Francesca with questions, comments,
suggestions at
fran@866333mary.com. Send email while the programs are going on if you
cannot get through or if you are listening outside of the USA. CALL IN TOLL
FREE; PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM (during the live show); 1-866-333-6279.

New Program: Living With Mary Today! Live: Thursdays and Fridays 2:30-3:00 PM
EST: From the Pontifical International Marian Research Institute (IMRI) at the
University of Dayton Marian Library, internationally-known Mariologists
Fathers Johann Roten, Francois Rossier, Thomas Thompson, and Bertrand Buby of
the Society of Mary (Marianists), and other IMRI faculty; Schoenstatt
Sisters Jean Frisk and Danielle Peters, Michael Duricy and Brother Erik
Otiende will discuss Marian themes such as The Blessed Mother and
Ecumenism; Mary and The Family; Mary and Suffering, Marian Teachings and
Writings of Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI; Mary and Scripture from the
Founder of the Marianists, Blessed Wm. Joseph Chaminade; Mary and Vatican II,
Marian Apparitions and others. The Marian Library at the University of Dayton houses the largest
collection of Marian books and artifacts in the world, and IMRI is the site of
post-graduate studies in Mariology for the Doctorate, STL and STD. Find out more
by visiting
marypage.org. The University of Dayton; The Marian Library and IMRI are
collaborators with the International Satellite Radio Maria Network and Radio Maria Ohio. Click here for the complete
schedule of future programs planned to date.

Praying the Rosary With the Smiling Pope (by Brother John Samaha S.M.)

While some misinterpreted the Second Vatican Council as downgrading devotion to Our Lady, Bishop Albino
Luciani of Vittorio Veneto, Italy (later Pope John Paul I), was concerned about
his people that no longer prayed the rosary. He continued to promote devotion
to Our Lady and to the rosary. But he urged more than superficial devotion.

At times Bishop Luciani was approached by simple faithful who asked him out of pious
curiosity what title of Our Lady he liked best. Without satisfying their
curiosity he would reply with a twinkle in his eye, "If you would let me give
you some advice, may I suggest that you have devotion to Our Lady of the Pots
and Pans, or Our Lady of the Broom. You see, Our Lady became a saint as a
simple housewife, washing the dishes, preparing meals, peeling the potatoes, or things like that."

"What I was trying to tell them," he explained to his priests, "was that, yes, they should
have great devotion to Our Lady, they must pray to her and have great confidence
in her, but above all, they must imitate her virtues."

Albino Luciani, now affectionately remembered as 'The Smiling Pope' and recognized as a superb
catechist, loved the rosary and was frequently seen with it in his hands. In
1972 he wrote, "The rosary becomes a look at Mary, which grows in intensity
little by little as one proceeds. It ends by being a refrain which springs from
the heart and when repeated sweetens the soul like a song. When I speak with God
and Our Lady, I prefer to think myself a child rather than a grown-up. The
miter, the zucchetto, the ring disappear. I send the grown-up on vacation, and
the bishop with him, and abandon myself to the spontaneous tenderness that a
child has for its papa and mama. To be for a while before God as I am in
reality, with the worst of myself and the best of myself; to let rise to the
surface from the depths of my being the child I once was, who wants to laugh, to
chatter, to love the Lord, and who sometimes feels the need to cry so that he
may be shown mercy, helps me to pray. The rosary, a simple and easy prayer,
helps me to be a child, and I am not ashamed at all."

The Marian Library gallery will show works from our extensive collection of
Pye's lithographs. The exhibit will run from July 1 - September 11, 2009.
For more details click
here.

We also have an ongoing exhibit of crèches through November 27, 2009.
Explore how the birth of Christ is seen around the world with The Marian
Library's annual display of thirty crèches from its collection of more than
fourteen hundred Nativity scenes. This year, the exhibit highlights a 130-piece hand-carved
Czechoslovakian village from the 1850s, created at a time when depictions of the
Nativity were suppressed. More than eighty villagers are depicted, including two government spies in disguise.

The Marian Library Gallery is located on the seventh floor of Roesch Library.
Free and open to the public, hours are Mon-Fri, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm or by appointment. Call 937-229-4214.

In order to make our web site more accessible, The Mary Page may now be
reached at the following URLs: lapagedemarie.org; lapaginademaria.org; marypage.org; themarypage.org;
marypage.udayton.edu; campus.udayton.edu/mary; and themarypage.net. The original address on the University of Dayton site,
www.udayton.edu/mary, remains active as well.

Two important Catholic websites have added The Mary Page to their list of Media Partners.
CatholicWeb.com highlights
items from The Mary Page in their section on Catholic News.
Catholic.net includes a Mary
Channel on their navbar with articles from The Mary Page. Please visit these sites in
return. We expect continued collaboration with them in the future.

Radio Maria broadcasts
from Milan, Italy, heard in forty-nine countries; WHJM
broadcasts out of Louisiana across USA [including FM 88.7, an affiliate station
in Anna, Ohio (north of Dayton) and AM 1600, an affiliate in Springfield, Ohio, which air regular Marian talks from UD's Marian Library every Wednesday at 11:30 am EST.]

Mary's Gardens, the website of the late
John S. Stokes, Jr. is in the process of being migrated to The Mary Page in
accord with his bequest. His children have also donated related physical
holdings to The Marian Library. Click
here for more
information.

One would think it impossible to spill any more ink about the Blessed Virgin
Mary, judging from the number of Marian titles on the shelf at a local Catholic bookstore.

But when popular Catholic author Mark Shea was considering entering the Church,
there were no comprehensive titles where he could address his concerns as an
evangelical Protestant about Catholic Marian doctrine and devotion.

Twenty years later, that book was still missing from the shelves, so Shea set out to write it.

The result is Mary, Mother of the Son, a three-volume apologetics tool published by
Catholic Answers. ...

The director and editors of The Mary Page under the auspices of the
International Marian Research Institute do not necessarily endorse or agree with
the events and ideas expressed in this feature. Our sole purpose is to report on
items about Mary gleaned from a myriad of papers representing the secular press.

Lackner Award Winner Keeps in Touch With Mary
[excerpted from the original by Vincenzina Krymow]
Source: University of Dayton Magazine (Dayton, Ohio), Summer 2009

Our Lady has been with Joseph Saliba, University of Dayton
Provost, since before he was born. His mother had already lost a child during
pregnancy, so his grandmother prayed to the Blessed Mother for her intercession.

After he left war-torn Lebanon for France in 1976, he kept in touch with Mary.
When he lived in Bordeaux, trying out for a soccer team, he regularly walked
past the Madeleine where Father William Joseph Chaminade had co-founded the
first Marianist lay community. When he visited Lourdes he promised Our Lady that
he would one day return with his children, and he did. [see Campus Report]

Arriving in the U.S., he enrolled at the University of Dayton on a cousin's recommendation. For Saliba, the University of Dayton,
with its Marian presence, became home when he couldn't return home. He earned three
engineering degrees in six years, was professor of engineering, department
chair, and dean, and now holds the University's most senior academic post, that of provost.

In May he and the University's president, Daniel J. Curran, visited Saliba's native country, bringing news about UD to alumni and
their families living in Lebanon and sharing their Marianist heritage. They also
visited secondary schools and universities to recruit students and establish academic exchanges.

He is one of this year's two recipients of the Lackner Award, given in
recognition of his noteworthy contributions to the Catholic and Marianist nature of the University.

You are invited to help us pray for our Prayer Corner
intentions. Please take a look! This site has been updated and enhanced
and now allows users to directly submit prayer requests or to volunteer as a prayer partner for these intentions!

The Mary Page offers a variety of resources inviting study, reflection and
meditation. We also list important Marian dates for each month of the
year. Please see Marian Commemoration Days for the month of
July.

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